kashish

Kashish and Suman were two sisters, but that was the only thing common in them, Suman was pretty, chirpy and vivacious, whereas any one will call Kashish ugly, she was silent and soft speaking. When Deepak moved in their neighbourhood he first observed Suman and then Kashish as her sister.

He often used to watch Suman, because of her extremely charming looks and nature, a combination which is very rare. As she and Kashish were inseparable he some times used to observe Kashish also. But slowly his eyes changed, Kashish was ugly to most of the people but Deepak saw something in her face which appealed to him, she had a pair of very ordinary but very kind eyes. Her face used to glow from the inner goodness. Whenever Deepak used to see her his heart used to fill up with warmth and happiness. He slowly approached Kashish and they became very good friends very soon.

Suman was the most chased after girl in the locality, so when she saw Deepak going out with Kashish her ego was a bit hurt, and she tried to flirt with Deepak harmlessly but Deepak did not stirred. He used to tease her sometimes as a younger sister but never let things confuse Kashish. He wanted to make it very clear that she is the only girl in her eyes.

Deepak was a very eligible bachelor, he has completed his medical studies and was doing internship in the local medical college cum hospital. Hence there were dozens girls chasing him and their parents were all ready to take him in as son in law. But some how he had his eyes on Kashish.

His friends often used to cajole him to change his mind about Kashish, saying that he wont be able to introduce her to his circle in future, because no matter how much he would try to doll her up her ugliness will make it a failure, but Deepak turned a deaf ear to them.

After completing internship he made up his mind to introduce Kashish to his parents, his father was nonchalant but his mother bluntly said no. she directly told him that as Deepak was her only son and good looking she wants a pretty wife for him. Deepak requested his mother to mix with Kashish for a few months before forming an opinion.

His mother started to mix with Kashish with full gusto, trying to find out any fault if she could, only drawback that she could see in that extremely sweet natured girl was that she was from a very low income family and her outer ugliness.

One day she was strolling with Kashish in the local park, they were chatting, all of a sudden she observed that Kashish has fallen silent, she turned her face to see her watching some thing, when she followed her gaze, she saw that she was watching a rag picker woman hungrily opening some boxes of pastry to check if there was something, and relishing on any piece she could get, she looked at Kashish’s face and saw her eyes were brimming with tear. She pretended not to see it.

That night she came back home and told her son to make arrangement for the wedding as soon as possible.